Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits CD EK-30325

This listing is for Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits CD EK-30325.

Label: Epic – EK 30325

Format: CD, Compilation, Reissue

Country: US

Released:

Genre: Funk / Soul

Style: Soul, Funk  

Tracklist:

1 I Want To Take You Higher 5:23

2 Everybody Is A Star 3:00

3 Stand! 3:06

4 Life 3:00

5 Fun 2:21

6 You Can Make It If You Try 3:38

7 Dance To The Music 2:59

8 Everyday People 2:22

9 Hot Fun In The Summertime 2:38

10 M'Lady 2:45

11 Sing A Simple Song 3:56

12 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 4:48

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American group Sly and the Family Stone. It was first released on November 21, 1970, by Epic Records. The album includes all of the singles from the albums Dance to the Music (1968), Life (1968), and Stand! (1969). Three tracks released on singles in 1969 appear on album for the first time here: "Hot Fun in the Summertime", "Everybody Is a Star", and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". The recordings on this compilation are not the same as the single versions in all cases; some songs appear here in their album lengths and mixes. Mixes sometimes have different editing and changes in vocals and or instrumentation. Greatest Hits was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having shipped five million copies in the United States. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 60 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 61 in a 2012 revised list, and number 343 in the 2020 rankings. The album was released in the midst of an eighteen-month stretch from late 1969 to late 1971, during which Sly & the Family Stone released no new material, Greatest Hits was designed by Epic Records to appease consumer demand and keep the band's name and music in the public's eye. Greatest Hits peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200, and was the band's most successful album.

Reviewing for Rolling Stone in December 1970, Jon Landau said that Sly Stone's style is "so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles", the best of which are compiled on Greatest Hits. Although he found occasionally "trite" music and lyrics, Landau felt that most of the songs "alone stand as a tribute to one of the most original and creative rock musicians." In the March 1971 edition of Ebony, Phyl Garland hailed it as among the best recent "best of" LPs and "a true bonanza" of psychedelic soul, recommended especially for fans of the genre. In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said that, although he has "doubts" about the band's studio albums, Greatest Hits is "among the greatest rock and roll LPs of all time", adding that Stone's political songs are "uplifting but never simplistic or sentimental". He also asserted that the music's flashy stereo separations, vocal sounds, and register alterations made Greatest Hits "the toughest commercial experiments in rock and roll history".

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